In India, 40 million people speak English at first-language fluency. How many people have at least some acquaintance with English (as of 2003).

What are the three motives expressed by the three young women who are learning English?

What were the two original dominant languages in the European Parliament?

When Bragg, in Germany, says "the smart money is on the import," what does he mean?

"This kind of globalization could become a cemetery for English." What tendency is Bragg referring to? What is good and bad about this sort of English?

Listen to the Singlish conversation. What are some of this dialect's features?

How can you tell if an English-speaker grew up speaking Gaelic? Why do some bilingual (Gaelic and English speakers) speak Gaelic some of the time and English some of the time?

Why do some call centers prefer to locate in Glasgow?

Glaswegian seems to derive from two different streams of English. As a result, there are words that have two distinct pronunciations--one pronunciation is closer to the language of southern England, the other uniquely Glaswegian. We see children demonstrating these differences. Can you give some examples?

What do bilingual students in Bradford, England, mean when they say "kass me" and "awr"? What words are in the borderline area for the Oxford English Dictionary?

What is the rule for deleting words from the OED?

What provision have we made for communicating with intelligent beings beyond earth?